Completely agree - only that a lot of the research looked at causation (dare I say it in the age of big data analytics). They set up experimental designs with control groups that identified a clear bias towards more attractive people. Those biases clearly exists in other areas as you have outlined. So where does this leave us - who believes that more attractive data scientists are more successful?

Meta, thank you for your comment, I was waiting for one like this, especially on a data analytics site. However, what surprised me was the level of statistical sound analysis that supported the argument. I thought the topic was worth having a discussion about, even a light-hearted one...